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Street Fighter is one of the most well known fighting game franchises and arguably the best and here's five things about the series you may not have known number one Street Fighter has actually taken direct influence from hacks of their games the third version of Street Fighter 2 called Street Fighter 2 turbo was directly inspired by a hacked version called rainbow Edition rainbow Edition featured all kinds of ridiculous overpowered changes to all characters including heat-seeking Hadouken z-- air specials the ability to switch fighters mid-match and moves that would travel across the entire screen super fast but most importantly though it sped up the entire pace of the game Capcom USA had one of their employees James Godard try out hacked versions of the game and while the majority of the changes rainbow made were completely broken he did find that returning to the regular Street Fighter afterwards felt like an incredibly slow experience this led to turbos increased speed and may have also inspired the addition of air specials in later games such as Akuma's ergo Hadouken number speaking of Akuma both him and Street Fighter 4's goken were actually made thanks to an April Fool's Day joke the original Street Fighter 2 had a mistranslation for reuse victory quote saying you must defeat Sheng long to stand a chance which was meant to reference one of his signature moves the shoryuken or the dragon punch but instead sounded like the name of some other fighter the gaming magazine EGM featured an April Fool's series of Secrets one being that shen long was reuse master and if you do things just the right way while fighting bison the fighter sheng long would appear kill bison and force you to fight him instead Akuma was introduced in the 5th version of Street Fighter 2 as a hidden character and using a similar but much easier method can make his appearance as the final boss of the arcade mode killing bison in the same way the joke claimed years later another egm April Fool's article was made for Street Fighter 3 talking about Sheng long being Akuma's brother and known in japan as goken being a hidden character and this time they introduced a picture of the fighter which looks pretty much just like the goken we got years later in Street Fighter hoar number 3 long time Street Fighter character dhalsim is normally known as being one of the most reluctant fighters in the series normally resorting to diplomacy if it's an option but just like all characters he has his grudges and there's one in particular that's especially nasty and that's with Balrog like all fighters dhalsim's backstory enjoys its fair share of stereotypes one of the other ones being that he owns several pet elephants which are featured on his stages of background in Street Fighter 2 during the plot of Street Fighter Alpha 3 Balrog practises one of his signature moves the Gigaton punch by punching in carrying elephant in a single strike and that elephant just so happened to be friends with one of dhalsim's leading to the yoga masters pretty understandable animosity against the prizefighter that and you know he's a chief enforcer and one of the most pile evil terrorist organizations infamous worldwide but that's all secondary number or speaking of Balrog the fighter bears a very uncanny resemblance to real-world fighter and former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson as well as a fighter from the original Street Fighter series named Mike in fact Balrog was originally named Mike bison in the Japanese version of Street Fighter 2 but fearing a possible lawsuit from Tyson's Capcom decided to switch around not two but three of their characters names bison became Balrog the fighter that we know is M bison was originally named Vega and who we know as Vega was originally named Balrog these names are still kept in Japanese versions of the later games while other countries also use the shuffled up versions leading to international tournaments and forums referring to the fighters simply as boxer claw and dictator number I Balrog / Mike bison isn't the only character based on a real-world fighter Street Fighter threes protagonist Alex is based on real-life wrestler Hulk Hogan I'm not the Hulk anymore while Hugo a character originally introduced in final fight and later became a fighter in Street Fighter 3 is very clearly based on wrestler Andre the Giant these influences are not only fairly telling in the characters design but is also made super obvious by a unique fighter introduction when the two faced off against each other in Street Fighter 3 which directly mimics Hogan and Andres real-world face-off in 1987 at WrestleMania 3 it's also interesting though that since Street Fighter 3 takes place at the end of the Street Fighter timeline and Alex is the main character that series that he's the current world reigning champion of the street a tournament in other words as far as Street Federer is concerned Hulk Hogan is the strongest fighter in the world as always guys 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